Odd Containment Specialist

"The mastermind behind the scenes, even at the cost of the remains of the named person, wants to drag you into that realm. Don't you have any clues?" Shangguan Yan questioned.

"I have no clues at all, really." Xia Shou sighed helplessly and said frankly:

"Minister, you may know more about this name than I do. I want to know what's going on more than you do, but I really don't know anything."

Shangguan Yan sighed softly, her patience was almost exhausted.

From the excitement of seeing Xia Shou at the beginning to the impatience now, it was not achieved overnight.

She always felt that she could learn something from this young man, but after spending so much energy and so much time, she got nothing except that she understood more and more that he and that person were deeply related.

She also thought that Xia Shou might have just accidentally obtained the inheritance of that person, but it was too forced to explain the same name and surname as coincidence.

And some details made people very concerned.

Now, she was very sure that the death record notes were on Xia Shou.

For a while, she suspected that the personality in the notes was the real "Xia Shou".

But now, she is not sure.

Because some places are full of doubts and incomprehensible.

The most puzzling thing is the encounter between Xia Shou and her.

Xia Shou came to the Control Bureau under the instruction of someone, and the recommendation letter on him is proof of that.

But strangely, the recipient of the recommendation letter is her boss who has died, the former director of the third department.

And the time of the other party's death is very early, and it has been a long time since she took over the third department.

Unless the person who wrote the recommendation letter deliberately wrote it to a dead person, otherwise the time of writing this letter is very, very early, even earlier than she took over the third department.

But if we go deeper into the latter line of thought, some places don't make sense. Since the relationship between the recommender and her boss is so good that he can write a recommendation letter, it is impossible that he didn't know about his death.

Her nickname of witch is quite famous in the Control Bureau. As long as the other party knows a little about the Control Bureau, they must know that the current Minister of the Third Department of Jiangbo City has become her Shangguan Yan.

Therefore, if you must follow this line of thought, there is only another possibility.

That is, when the writer wrote this recommendation letter, her boss was still alive, and after the writer wrote the recommendation letter, he lost the ability to obtain external information.

Therefore, after many years, after the change of ownership of the Third Department, she still felt that this letter could be used.

She had guessed that the recommendation letter was written by the person in the Death Record Note before his death according to this line of thought.

But in this way, it proves that the person in the Death Record Note cannot be "Xia Shou".

Because when "Xia Shou" was still alive, Shangguan Yan's predecessor had not yet become a minister.

So "Xia Shou" could not have written that letter while he was alive, unless he entered the note after his death and asked the note holder to write it on his behalf.

But if you think this way, many things don't make sense. After all, the holder is well-informed, and the position changes in the control bureau are not difficult to understand, so it is impossible for such a mistake to occur.

Reasoning to this point, unless unknown extraordinary elements are added, this line of thought has become a dead end.

But the other line of thought is not easy to follow.

... There is another reason to write a letter to a dead person.

That is, the other party knows her contract with the thirsty goat.

Judging from Xia Shou's performance when they first met, this guess is the most reasonable.

At that time, Xia Shou was so resistant to joining her department, but happened to have to join for some reasons.

This feeling is like someone is deliberately catering to her contract taboos.

The other party not only made Xia Shou have a gap with her from the beginning, but also forced Xia Shou to establish a secret cooperative relationship with her while he was alienated from her, so that she could completely control Xia Shou through the authority of the leader.

From this line of thought, it has been very smooth and reasonable until here.

But soon, the contradiction came again.

She made a contract with the thirsty goat long after "Xia Shou" died, and no one knew about it except a few people.

The director, Qiao Xin, and Wu Shuguo, only these three people.

The director recruited her for the future of the control bureau.

Qiao Xin was her accomplice before she turned over a new leaf.

Wu Shuguo was the opportunity for her first contact with the control bureau, a defeated general with good strength.

She was persuaded by them and finally made a contract with the thirsty goat to curb the trend of ascension.

That ceremony added the process of keeping secrets by the crescent moon. Whether it was active or passive, it was impossible to leak secrets, so except for the three of them, there would never be a fourth person who knew the taboos of the contract.

In this way, the final conclusion became extremely outrageous.

Unless the person who wrote the recommendation letter inferred the constraints of the contract based on the details of her behavior, otherwise the only three people who could write this letter were the director, Qiao Xin, and Wu Shuguo.

But the person who wrote this letter also left the death record notes to Xia Shou!

Only the holder of the Death Note can see the contents of the note. If they are not the holder, then to them, it is just an ordinary note.

Without the Death Note, how can they know about "Xia Shou"?

But if they were the holder, then Xia Shou could not become the new holder unless he died.

But the director and Qiao Xin are still alive, so they are definitely not the holders of the note.

In this way, only Wu Shuguo is suspected.

That old man... is he dead too?

"But that doesn't make sense, he could have told me directly." Shangguan Yan couldn't help but mutter.

"Huh? What did you say, Minister?" Xia Shou asked tremblingly.

Shangguan Yan came back to his senses from his replay: "Nothing, let's prepare dinner first, come to the kitchen to help me."

"Oh, okay!"

Xia Shou nodded repeatedly.

Now as long as you don't continue to ask him questions, you can ask him to do anything, not to mention helping with cooking, even asking him to eat in the toilet today.

Shangguan Yan came to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, took out cucumbers, green peppers, eggs, fresh chicken legs and fresh beef brisket, took off his coat, unhooked his apron from the hook and put it on.

"Can you help cut it? Debone the chicken legs and smash the cucumbers." Shangguan Yan said, taking out starch from the cabinet and knocking the eggs into the bowl with one hand.

Xia Shou smashed the cucumber, put it aside, and then clumsily deboned the chicken legs.

Shangguan Yan looked at him with a sidelong glance, feeling a little disappointed.

If it was him, he wouldn't be so clumsy.

Same name...

Why the same name?

Why did he choose him with the same name?

Did he want her to take care of him? But if so, why didn't he tell her directly?

Shangguan Yan sighed barely noticeably and said to Xia Shou, "Give me the kitchen knife, you beat the eggs."